Here, you don’t know if the person walking up to you will hurt you.” His father told a reporter, “In a war, you know who your enemies are. In a random act of violence near Springfield, Illinois, a twelve-year-old boy was shot and killed by three men who forced his family’s car off Interstate 55 and demanded money. In Eureka, California, two burning crosses were placed on a family’s front lawn. In Milwaukee, garden plots were vandalized and a car was set on fire.
In Providence, children walking home from school were beaten. A high school student getting off a bus was hit in the face and told to “go back to China.” A woman was kicked in the thighs, face, and kidneys, and her purse, which contained the family’s entire savings of $400, was stolen afterwards, she forbade her children to play outdoors, and her husband, who had once commanded a fifty-man unit in the Armée Clandestine, stayed home to guard the family’s belongings. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.“In Minneapolis, tires were slashed and windows smashed. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other.
The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952.
The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. A PAINTED HOUSE by John Grisham - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by John Grisham.
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